There are some cool classes and tricks and short cuts in C#. I know this but I have not worked with C# enough to have them memoried.

One cool trick is this. If you read from a file data that is arranged in a similar line-by-line structure where each line is arranged in columns spaced out by tabs, the data can be read into a kind of class in C# and then you can parse out one column of data by simply doing a "for each" command. Does anyone know off-hand how this is done?

Basically, what I am talking about is this. I understand how to read a file line by line:

Now, how would I go about replacing Console.WriteLine(line); with code that will organize the data automatically intomembers of a class provided that the line columns in the input file are seperated by /t (tabs)?

you can use LINQ to load data to list and manipulate the way you need...likegetList = from line in File.ReadAllLines(fileName) let itemRecord = line.Split('\ ') select new Record() { itemID = itemRecord [0], lname = itemRecord [1] }.ToList();

There are some cool classes and tricks and short cuts in C#. I know this but I have not worked with C# enough to have them memoried.One cool trick is this. If you read from a file data that is arranged in a similar line-by-line structure where each line is arranged in columns spaced out by tabs, the data can be read into a kind of class in C# and then you can parse out one column of data by simply doing a "for each" command.